Olsson, Anders

Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History of Literature and History of Ideas.

2006 (Swedish)Book (Other academic)

Abstract [sv]

The study investigates the nature of short forms of discontinuous writing in modern literature. It treats the relation between literary fragmentation in modern aesthetics and the changed genre system since romanticism. Not least the link between fragmentary and aphoristic writing and its importance for modern poetry is analysed. The study treats the development of the aphoristic genre from la Rochefoucauld over the Jena romantics (Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis) to Nietzsche and René Char. Of particular importance is to show the transformation of the aphoristic genre into a lyrical mode in swedish literature, from Vilhelm Ekelund, Gunnar Björling, Bengt Emil Johnson, Katarina Frostenson to Ann Jäderlund.